Problem: SUDDEN CARDIAC ARREST

Leading cause of death in the United States and currently affects around 424,00* people.

During a sudden cardiac arrest, the heart loses its normal functionality due to electrical disturbances that can stall the heart and stop the blood flow to your body. It is accompanied by loss of consciousness, stopped breathing e.t.c.

*AHA’s Heart and Stroke Statistics, 2014

Stats: Cardiac Arrest

Number of Cases Outside of the Hospital: 90%

Survival rate - Actual: 10%

Survival rate with bystander intervention :30%

Existing TREATMENT

Administer Chest Compressions

The immediate treatment in a situation like sudden cardiac arrest is to administer chest compressions to keep the blood flowing to the vital organs. Currently it is done manually by the emergency personnel or the bystander.

The process is called Cardio pulmonary resuscitation (Famously known as CPR– Compression + Mouth to Mouth respiration).

Recently there is an adaptation of Cardiocerebral resuscitation (CCR – Compression only).

DEFIBRILLATION

Use of Automated External Defibrillators to deliver high currents to bring the heart back to rhythm.

Note: AED’s can only be used in a few case types. Not all rhythms can be treated by defibrillation. In such cases Chest compressions is the only way to revive a person.

Medications

Use of certain types of drugs to kickstart the heart.

Adaptation of CCR- Cardiocerebral Resuscitation

CCR – The new age CPR

Cardiocerebral resuscitation (CCR) is being adapted as an alternative approach to Cardiopulmonary resuscitation with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients who have no access to AED’s.

It has been shown to improve rates of neurologically intact survival by 250%–300%.